Meet your colleagues from across the Institute!
This bot is designed to introduce you to new people from all across Flatiron by encouraging you to set up brief a one-on-one coffee meeting with a new colleague every two weeks. The hope is that this will help identify common interests, foster new collaborations, and perhaps even start new friendships. These types of programs have been successful in other companies and there are even some other open-source options, but (in the Flatiron style) we decided to roll our own lightweight open-source solution.
When you sign up, your email address will be added to a pool and every other Monday you'll receive an email connecting you with another employee from that pool. This email will encourage you to arrange a short (think 15 minutes) informal meeting sometime during the following two weeks. These meetings can be over coffee on the 11th floor or another common space, but they shouldn't be scheduled in anyone's office. You're welcome to ignore or postpone the meeting suggestion for any reason (if you're traveling or too busy, for example), but do try to let the other person know if you can't make it because you won't ever be paired again!
This is open-source software licensed under the terms of the MIT license (see LICENSE for all the details).